Improvement in locomotive smoke-stacks



iENEEoNTANE, or Eon'r WAYNE, INDIANA, 'Ass'enon rro HIMsELE) AND .WILLIAM A. ROBERTS, or SAME rLAcE.` i

* am sin@ I Letters Patent No. 108,899, dated November 1, .1870.

'oi'all rwhom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, EUGENE FONTANE, of Forty Wayne, in the countyof Allen and State of' Indiana,

have invented anew andimprove-d Smoke-Stack; and

l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which The figure is a transi-erse-vertical section.

This invention vrelates to an improvement in the smoke-'stacks of coal andwood-burning locomotives, c

and consists in securing l'a cylinder, with a flange, to

the pipe within the head of the stack, and arranging it in combination 4with an inverted diverging flanged cone or `dcfieetor, in such a manner that the sparks 'from the fire-box are carried up through the said cylinder by the steain from the exhaust-pipes of the engine., and, striking the cone, are thrown dow-n the outside of the cylinder upon the converging bottom ofthe head of' the smoke-stack, so as to' come beneath an opening between thev cylinder and the inside pipe, whereyitis again carriednp through the cylinder until.

i it strikes the deector, and is thrown down in thc same manner: this process being repeated until the sparks are extinguished by the steam, and beaten to dust by being carried against the cone, after which the .portion not consumed is ti'nally carried out'- through the bonnet; the-object of the invention-being to consume the sparks from the engine. vi In the drawngz u is the top ofone end of the boiler;

5, the saddle in which the ppcc rides; y d, the head of' the stack; and

e, the bonnet." j' is thelcylinder, provided with the fiange g.

.- h is` the defiector.

'i fi fi, are supporting-rods, the bottoms of' which are riveted to the top of the cylinder f.

,The deflector h is secured to the brackets 'i by nuts in, above and 4below it. v

The-cylinder f is secured to the pi pe c byhmckets 'lhe bonnet e rests .upon the angle-iron k, and is vsecurely fastened to the supporting-rods i by nuts l,

above and below it.- v

The sparks are carried up through the pipe c and cylinder f by the steam from the exhanstfpipes of the engine, and strike the deflector h, when they are thrown ddownoby the curved flange of said deflector, and fall ,E

upon the converging bottom of the head d, so as to comebencath the opening n betweenthe cylinder f and topof pipe c, when they areagain carried up by the steam,'and thrown down, as before.' i The steam sometimes causes the lsparks to rise from A the bottom of the head l outside otthelcylinderff. When this occurs the sparks strike the fiange g, and fall back andare carried up through the opening n, and inally through the bonnet e. v

Having t-hus described my invention, That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-1 ters Patent, is-v -The cylinder f and pipe c, the former surmo'untingthe latter, in combination with the head d and dc-i ector h, substantially as described. v l EUGENE FONTAINE. 

